Shock-compressor



(No Modell.)

J. K. MILLER. SHOCK CGMPRESSOR.

/NVENTOH Patented Mar. 3, 1891.

ATENT Fries.

JAMES K. MILLER, OF EMPORIALKANSAS.

SHOCK-COMPRESSOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,619, dated March 8, 1891.

Application filed October 20, 1890. Serial No. 368,685. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES K. MILLER, of Emporia, in the county of Lyon and State of Kansas, have invented a new and Improved Shock-Binder, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of binders which are used in compressing fodder and corn shocks and holding them while they are being tied, although it may also be used in compressing any other kind of bundle, if desired.

The object of my invention is to producea binder of simple construction, by means of which a shock maybe quickly and easily compressed, which may be instantly released after the shock is tied, and which may be used either right or left handed and either side up.

To this end my invention consists in certain features of construction and combina-- tions of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the binder with a rope attached, showing the position of the binder and rope when the shock is bound. Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the binder. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same, and Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the binder.

The binder is preferably made of hard wood, although metal may be used in its construction, if desired, and it comprises a handle A, which is located at one end, and which terminates in a central body portion B, which is split longitudinally to form the two opposite arms B and B2, between which is pivoted a grooved pulley C. Both the arms B and B2 project beyond the pulley; but the arm B is prolonged to form the head B3, the outer side of the arm B being beveled, as shown at b near its opposite edges, and the arm B is cut away and rounded slightly beyond the outer portion of the pulley C to forni the neck b', which facilitates the removal of the bindingrope from the pulley and enables it to be easily belayed.

The outer end of the neck h terminates abruptly in the shoulders he, which form the inner end of the head B3 and which insure the requisite amount of leverage on the binder to hold the free end of the rope when it is belayed. The head B3 is rounded at its outer extremity, as shown, and is provided with a transverse hole b3, which enables the binding-rope D to be attached to the head, the rope being preferably passed through the hole and tied into a knot, as shown in Fig. 1.

The arm B2 terminates opposite the neck b of the arm B', and the outer end of the arm B2 is concaved, as best shown in Figs. 2 and 3, thus forming retaining-shoulders h at the outer corners of the arm. These shoulders hold t-he free end of the binding-rope and catch under a portion of the rope, and thus prevent the binder from rolling.

The operation is as follows: The head B3 is thrust into the side ofthe shock so as to hold the binder in place while the free end of the rope is being carried around the shock; or, if desired, the operator may hold one end of the ropeD and throw the binder around the shock. Then the binder is taken in the left hand, with the arm B on the upper side, the rope D is placed on the pulley C, and the rope drawn until the shock is sufficiently compressed. The handle A is then swung to the left, thus throwing the rope off the pulley onto the neck b of the arm B. The free end of the rope is then carried up around the neck b above the pulley and down between the retaining-shoulders on the arm B2, and finally the handle is swung to the right and the projecting shoulder on the right side of the arm B2 is thrust under the rope D to prevent the binder from rolling. The strain of thebinding-rope D upon the binder securely holds the free end of the rope between the shoulders b* and the main portion of the rope o which bears upon the free end, a bightbeing thus formed which securely belays the rope. The manner in which the rope is belayed is clearly shown in Fig. l. To release the hinder after the shock is tied, the handle A is merely swung to the left, thus releasing the strain of the rope D upon the free end thereof, and the device can be removed.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the neck b on the opposite shoul- IOO ders on the arm l"2 enable the binding-rope lo be easily belayed, as the shoulders 1920i the head ll prevent the rope from slipping from the binder, and the shoulders b? of the head B3 insurea definite amount of leverage on the binder to hold the free end of the rope when it is belayed. The binder may be made of any desired size.

Having thus fully described my invention, l claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Paten t l. A shock-binder comprising a handle, a central body portion split longitudinally to form two arms, one of which is prolonged and formed into a narrow neck and a terminal head, and a pulley pivoted between the arms, the head being apertured to receive a rope, substantially as described.

2. A shock-binder comprising a handle, a central body portion split longitudinally to form tivo arms, one of Which is prolonged and formed into a narrow neel; and a terminal head, a pulley pivoted between the arms, and a rope attached to the head, substantially as described.

A shook-binder comprising a handle, a body portion connected therewith, said body portion being split longitudinally to form opposite arms, one of the arms being prolonged and formed into a narrow neck, a terminal head having a transverse hole therein, a. binding-rope attached to the perforated head, and a pulley pivoted between the arms, substantially as described.

L A shock-binder comprising a handle, a body portion connected therewith, said body being split longitudinally to form opposite arms, one ol:` the arms being rounded and reduced to form a neck, and then enlarged to form a terminal head, and the opposite arm being eoneaved at the end, forming retainingshoulders at the outer corners, a pulley pivoted between the two arms, and abinding-rope attached to the enlarged head, substantially as described.

JAMES l. MILLER.

\Vitnesses:

J. V. WELLS, .Toi-1N BAY. 

